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Meantime, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis' idea to hike gas taxes 5? per gal. to repair highways and bridges was making progress in Congress. And Reagan threw his weight behind the notion, hatched in the Department of Agriculture, of using surplus grain as a payment for not producing new grain...
...that he has instructed his advisers never to consider the vote-getting potential of a decision, and his aides unanimously confirm it. That testimony sounds too self-serving to be swallowed whole, and there have been actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand is a refreshing change from having every issue judged by the Nixon Administration's immortal criterion: How will it play in Peoria...
...secondary matters the President will sometimes accept the consensus even if it goes against his grain. A prime example is the agenda of social issues?particularly banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools?that are all-important to his New Right followers. Reagan believes in that agenda too, and stressed it as a candidate. But he accepted the judgment of his legislative staff that pushing hard for such measures would complicate the passage of his economic program, which to Reagan has a higher priority. The most the President would do was to give North Carolina Senator...
Indeed, after eleven months of various kinds of sanctions, only $200 million or so in potential sales has been affected, and some of that has been merely delayed, not lost. Thanks to grain sales of $2.5 billion this year, U.S. exports to the Soviet Union should total $3.5 billion, a surplus for the U.S. of $2.7 billion...
...pathetic that the Administration would gladly pressure Israel by withholding aid, but backs off implementing a similar policy in so many other countries. Besides pursuing its business-as-usual policy in Central America, Washington also recently decided to life the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. The White House brain trust erroneously believed such a policy could work but realistically calculated that the political backlash from farmers would be too great to maintain the ban. No such qualms sidetracked the Administration in its attempt to detail the Israel appropriations bill. Maybe the socalled "Jewish Lobby" on Capitol Hill...